If we set aside the current economic climate, the great and continued success of Intel’s Core 2 Duo/Quad, and the likelihood that few, if any games and programmes will be fully optimized to use all 8 threads of the Intel Core i7 920, then the Gigabyte GA EX-58 Extreme is an excellent motherboard.

"What you get with the Gigabyte GA EX-58 Extreme is a high quality, feature laden, class leading motherboard. It truly excelled in the performance department and showed the potential of Tri Channel DDR 3 memory. Pushing the Intel Core i7 920 to 3.9Ghz demonstrated that the entry level offering is more than capable of matching the more expensive Extreme Edition. All in all the GA EX-58 proved itself to be a top class performer and deserving of our Editor's Choice Award."

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